strength of a trend, cant

roughbert

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I can just about remember some basic statistics, which might help me to detect a trend in sequential data. I don't have the luxury of viewing a chart at this point, in fact I am filtering quote data looking for stocks which are worthy of my shortlist.

would I be right in thinking that

  1. a trend can be determined by fitting a line to a series of quotes (linear regression)
  2. the strength of the trend will be something like 1/SS of point distances from the trend line?

Is there a better way? If I'm using the wrong jargon here, please correct me!

** added - is "strength of the trend" the Correlation coefficient (or the Coefficient of Determination), perchance? This tells us how good the fit is.
 
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